The fish which the moodliar sent to me is an Anabas, closely resembling the Perca scandens of Daldorf; but on minute examination it proves to be a species unknown in India, and hitherto found only in Boreno and China.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent
Anabas scandens, 349, 350. Daldorf's statement, anticipated by Abou-zeyd, 350 n.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent
These labyrinthal water-chambers are particularly numerous and complicated in the Anabas just mentioned.
"The Romance of Natural History, Second Series"
Philip Henry Gosse